Umapathy Vethamani

Proven Technical & Management Expertise in a Career Spanning 20+ Years Technically sophisticated and business-savvy management professional with a pioneering career reflecting strong leadership qualifications coupled with “Hands-on” IT and networking expertise. Maintain focus on achieving bottom-line results while formulating and implementing advanced technology and business solutions to meet a diversity of needs. Superior record of delivering simultaneous large-scale, mission-critical projects on time and under budget Team-based management style and excellent interpersonal/communication skills. IT Strategic Planning / Business Solutions /Team Leadership /Budgeting Project Management / Capital Expenditure Planning / Contract Negotiations / Vendor Relations. Encouraging manager and analytical problem-solver with talents for team building, leading and motivating, as well as excellent customer relations aptitude and relationship-building skills. Proficient in using independent decision-making skills and sound judgment to positively impact company success. Dedicated to applying training, monitoring and morale-building abilities to enhance employee engagement and boost performance.

ITIL Foundation.

• Recruited to upgrade and replace obsolete technologies at this world-class health care organization with more than 2000 users in 15 remote locations. Hire, train, develop, and lead a 20-person technical team manage full design, installation, engineering, implementation, and support, training, administration, and management authority for:
• LAN/WAN Network Services
• Data Center Computer Operations
• Applications Systems
• PC Desktop Systems
• UNIX System Administration
• Help Desk Operations
• Exchange System Administration
• Spearheaded transition from outdated organization-wide and departmental technologies to highly functional, streamlined, and cost-effective client-server technologies and business solutions that have dramatically improved efficiency, decreased expenses, and optimized data integrity and safety.

• Managed from planning through completion, a 2400 Windows NT 5.0 Workstation and network printer implementation project delivered on time and under budget
• Attained consistent 99% up time by implementing disaster recovery and fault tolerance plans instituted the first highly reliable corporate-wide, centralized backup system.
• Championed introduction of internet/intranet/Web technology, corporate-wide email, shared calendaring, and online meetings. Setup and managed a TCP/IP environment, installed a Novell network and implemented a data warehouse database.
• Collaborated on numerous management committees including the Systems Application Selection Team, Chair of the Network, Operations, and Security Team, and the Y2K Implementation Team